Sanaa Gamil
Born to a Coptic Orthodox family in Minya Governorate, she moved to Cairo to pursue her acting career and changed her name to Sanaa Gamil.
One of her most notable roles was Nefisah in front of Omar Sharif in the movie Bidaya wa nihaya (A Beginning and an End) directed by Salah Abouseif in 1960. The movie was based on a novel with the same name by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. Sanaa Gamil won the best supporting actress award at the Moscow Film Festival in 1961 for her role in this movie.
Not only a movie actress, but more importantly one of the best Egyptian theater actresses. She has also played a number of roles on the French Stage for La Comedie Francaise.
She was married to the famous Egyptian journalist Louis Greiss and had no children.
She also acted in a number of TV series like Oyoun (Eyes) with Fuad Al Mohandes, and in a number of plays such as The Visit with Gamil Rateb
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.264 |
| Birthday | 1930-04-27 |
| Place of Birth | Egypt |
| Also Known As | سناء جميل, Sanaa Jamil, ثريا يوسف عطا الله, Sanaa Gamil, |
1964
Dawn of a New Day
7.75/4
The story of a 40-year-old married woman who has fallen into idleness and does not know how to approach the revolutionary events in her country. She f...
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Dawn of a New Day
1952
The Great Clown
7/3
Shehata Effendi is a clerk for a wealthy woman who is in dispute with her husband. Her husband divorced her a third time, so they resort to Shehata to...
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The Great Clown
1994
Mr. K
0/0
In villa Sonsen, a wealthy woman named Kismat Hanim lives with her relatives: her brother-in-law Kamel, his son, the singer Fouad, her business manage...
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Mr. K
1955
Spring Fantasies
8/1
A girl develops a psychological complex after witnessing her mother giving birth to her second child, leading her to reject marriage and suffer from n...
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Spring Fantasies
1952
Good News
10/1
Sanaa is the daughter of Mukhtar Pasha, a young woman who prefers to marry Susu Beek, one of the sons of the high class of her father's friends, and h...
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Good News
1979
The Cursed
0/0
Egyptian Adaption Of the great play "King lear" by William Shakespeare.
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The Cursed
1967
The Second Wife
7.385/13
A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
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The Second Wife
1965
The Impossible
7.4/5
Helmy's father forces him to marry someone he doesn't love. When his father dies, Helmy decides to break free. He meets Nany, the gentle helpless girl...
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The Impossible
1952
Lady of The Train
5.667/6
Fikria is a singer who's married to Farid ,the gambling addict. When she's traveling by train, she gets in an accident and a peasant treats her. After...
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Lady of The Train
1952
killer mother
9/1
A married engineer with a son and a daughter, he drives in love with a dancer who sets her window around him with the help of her boyfriend until she...
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killer mother
1956
The Sky Devils
7/1
Farghali, Awad, and Ahmed are three soldiers who meet for the first time after a successful operation against the Zionist forces during the 1948 war....
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The Sky Devils
1987
The Basement
6/1
The poor widow Umm al-Khair raises her children, Youssef, Waraqia and Aisha. Ruqaya looks to get rich, so she gives in to Dandrawi who gets arrested a...
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The Basement
1952
Iidini eaqlak
0/0
After Kamal returns to his hometown after finishing his studies and marrying a very beautiful Cairene girl, both Jazar and Ghoneim become jealous, so...
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Iidini eaqlak
1951
Adam and Eve
8/1
Two friends, Sami, a journalist, and Mukhtar, a businessman, marry two sisters, Fatima and Azza, in one night. Over time, the lives of the two sisters...
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Adam and Eve
1954
Marret El-ayam
10/1
Inside the university, a student admires her ideal professor, without the professor realizing it. The professor proposes to the family and proposes to...
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Marret El-ayam
1954
April Fool
7/1
Ismail wants to grab his wife's Turkish money, claiming that he has the children of a former wife who died, and that he can not spend on them, but Ism...
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April Fool
1953
Fi Sharaa Meen
7/1
Zakia is a reckless woman who pushes her husband to deal in drugs in order to provide the money she needs. Her husband is arrested and sentenced to te...
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Fi Sharaa Meen
1953
شريك حياتى
0/0
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شريك حياتى
1952
Zeinab
7/1
An adaptation of Mohamed Hussein Heikal novel. At the beginning of the 20th century, Zainab, a peasant girl, falls in love with Ibrahim al-Khouli, who...
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Zeinab
1976
Your Wisdom, God!
6/1
In the slaughterhouse neighborhood lives the teacher Umm Naima and her daughter, the educated girl who graduated from the Faculty of Law, Naima, who s...
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Your Wisdom, God!
1960
The Beginning and the End
8.2/10
Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grappling with the hardships of life after the death o...
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The Beginning and the End
1998
Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better
7/9
Photographer Sayed Gharib leaves his hometown and moves Cairo to be close to the Faculty of Medicine that his daughter Tahani attends. Tahani clashes...
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Smile, The Photo Comes Out Better
1993
The Lady's Driver
6/5
A Lady of the royal family live and breed on the ruins of the past, her husband, son and daughter suffering from her domination and control. When she...
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The Lady's Driver
1953
Have Mercy
6/6
Ismail and Abdo work at an antiquities shop. One day, they bring a box with a mummy inside. They are watched by a man who claims to be an archaeologis...
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Have Mercy
1986
Nessa Khalf Al Qodban
0/0
The film revolves around "Nadia" who refuses to marry lawyer "Hatem", who covets a rich marriage, while "Laila", who is assisted by her father and a g...
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Nessa Khalf Al Qodban
1957
I'll Never Cry
8.5/2
The family of Abu Taqiyya holds the hostility to the pasha who obtained their land from a public auction. This pasha has a daughter who falls in love...
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I'll Never Cry
1957
Nisaa Fi Hayaty
9/1
Ahmed Awad Najjar Isami, who ended up with a grand workshop owner in which dozens of workers work, he meets with Tuha, a girl he saw growing up in his...
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Nisaa Fi Hayaty
1972
Al Shaytan wal Kharif
0/0
Naim, who decides to take revenge on Narges' widow, Wasfi, who caused him to be imprisoned, so he makes an agreement with Dalal in order to plan to se...
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Al Shaytan wal Kharif
1953
Money slaves
9/1
Wahid and Mansour are friends, working in a drug trafficking gang, but Mansour is charged with murder and is sentenced to imprisonment. Before going t...
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Money slaves
1984
The Unknown
6.5/2
In an Isolated Canadian motel, a mother and a depressed daughter survive by murdering their guests for money.
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The Unknown
1979
Doubt, My Love
0/0
Dr. Rabab is the wife of businessman Abdul Rahim, their routine life is disturbed by the nosy Bahiga, Abdul Rahim's sister, who interferes in everyth...
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Doubt, My Love
1953
Ana Wi Habibi
9/1
The young Mounir (Mounir Mourad), a talented artist, tries to take advantage of his unique talents, but he faces many difficulties in order to find hi...
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Ana Wi Habibi
1976
Tawheeda
0/0
A love affair links Tawhida and Hussein, who travels abroad to improve his financial situation. Tawhida becomes pregnant and is forced to marry a weal...
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Tawheeda
1954
Ya Zalemni
0/0
On a train, a teacher meets the collector who enters his compartment and has an attack and the teacher thinks that he killed him by accident. He escap...
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Ya Zalemni
1974
Back Streets
0/0
Several models of Egyptian citizens are introduced during the British occupation, from Shukry the army officer who refuses to shoot at student demonst...
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Back Streets
1953
Belal Moa'zen Al-Rasool
7/1
In a historical story, the film narrates the life story of Bilal bin Rabah, the great muezzin who suffered a difficult life and great torment until th...
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Belal Moa'zen Al-Rasool
1967
زهرة الصبار
0/0
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زهرة الصبار
1961
No Tears
7/1
On one of his trips, Wahid, a forty-year-old journalist, meets Sawsan, a young flight attendant. Admiration grows between them, and love grows, but th...
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No Tears
Nahed
8/1
A girl is married to a doctor and they are living a love story. She was the target of all the relatives who tried to ruin this marriage and they actua...
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Nahed
1959
Heart of Gold
9/1
One day, while Nadia is returning by car at night, she hits a woman with her car and she is killed, which causes her to suffer a nervous shock. After...
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Heart of Gold
1978
Ahlan Ya Captin
0/0
Raafat works on one of the ships and meets with his ex-girlfriend Madiha, who refuses to marry him because she wants to marry a wealthy person. Both R...
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Ahlan Ya Captin
1954
Kedt Ahdem Baity
9/1
The husband lives happily with his small family, but the happiness does not last, as jealousy creeps into the heart of one of his friends, so he tells...
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Kedt Ahdem Baity
1969
زوجات وأزواج
0/0
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زوجات وأزواج
1952
Isalu kalbi
9/1
A wealthy girl falls in love with a famous actor, but her father refuses to complete the relationship out of respect for family traditions. The actor...
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Isalu kalbi
1953
Nafeza A'la Al-Ganna
10/1
An orphan girl from a wealthy family, lives with her depressed, withdrawn father, and falls in love with Tawfiq, a writer in her father's circle. She...
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Nafeza A'la Al-Ganna
1958
Maa Al Ayam
9/1
Afaf is a young doctor. Her surgeon husband dies, leaving her with two children, the eldest of whom is no more than five years old. Afaf devotes her l...
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Maa Al Ayam
1987
Al-Kharteet
0/0
(Sultan) and his nephew (Adel) smuggle drugs. In one of the operations, the warehouse keeper (Jaber) kills him and kills him. Sultan tries to assault...
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Al-Kharteet
1986
A solution that pleases all
6/1
It talks about a wife who seeks to keep her deceased son of her husband away from home, so that she can live alone and bring her daughter to live with...
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A solution that pleases all
1956
Ismail Yassine fi Mat'haff Elshame' Ismail Yassine fi Mat'haff Elshame'
9/1
Three people, each with a story: a police officer, a gangster and an undertaker. First, the police officer discovered the gang but could not arrest th...
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Ismail Yassine fi Mat'haff Elshame' Ismail Yassine fi Mat'haff Elshame'
1955
أهل الهوى
0/0
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أهل الهوى
1971
Some Live Twice
0/0
Ahmed, an archaeologist, and his wife Zahira, a school principal, get preoccupied with their careers that they neglect their children, causing Thoraya...
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Some Live Twice
1985
When Evening Comes
0/0
When a simple employee retires and lives with his wife who is different from him in character, and after his children get married, his wife is a contr...
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When Evening Comes
1955
الميعاد
0/0
On the importance of integrity in life, Kamal, a poor engineer, is forced to work as a secretary, while his friend Nazmi pretends to be wealthy in ord...
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الميعاد
1976
The Message
8.6/45
In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and pub...
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